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Queen Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1819-1901)
View from my window at Floors dated 22 Aug 1867
Penicl, watercolour with ink inscription | 12.7 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 980038.bz
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A watercolour showing a view from a window at Floors Castle. The River Tweed is shown flowing across the foreground, with trees on the banks in front. Further trees are shown behind and a bridge is shown over the river to the left. The Cheviot Hills are shown in the background. Inscribed lower left: View from Floors Aug: 23. 1867. From my window. Inscribed below pasted down sheet: View from my window at Floors. Aug: 22. 1867. Queen Victoria stayed at Floors Castle from 21 to 23 August 1867, as a guest of the Duchess of Rosburgh. In her journal entry of 21 August 1867, Queen Victoria describes how "The view from the windows [was] beautiful the distant range of Cheviots with a great deal of wood, Kelso surrounded by woods, the bridge with the Tweed flowing beneath & in front natural grass terraces which go down to it".
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Medium and techniques
Penicl, watercolour with ink inscription
Measurements
12.7 x 18.2 cm (sheet of paper)